ABOUT THIS BOOK

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Cuban Studies 39 includes essays on: the recent transformation of the Cuban film animation industry and its continuing cultural impact; the influence of the liberal agenda of Justo Rufino Barrios on Jose Martí; a profile of the music of the Special Period and its social commentary; an in-depth examination of the contents, important themes, and enormous research potential of the Miscelánea de Expedientes collection at the Cuban National Archive; and a realistic assessment on the political future of Cuba.

Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

Tradition Meets Technology: Cuban Film Animation Enters the Global Marketplace - Ann Marie Stock

Under the Volcanoes: The Influence of Guatemala on José Martí - Robert L. Huish and W. George Lovell

El Hijo de Guillermo Tell: Carlos Varela Confronts the Special Period - Robert Nasatir

Hard Work with the Mare Magnum of the Past: Nineteenth Century Cuban History and the Miscelánea del Expedientes Collection - Jorge L. Giovannetti and Camillia Cowling

Reflections on the Future of Cuba - Lisandro Pérez

Reviews/ReseñasK - Lynn Stoner and Gladys Marel García Pérez, editors

Rafael L. López-Valdés, Pardos y morenos esclavos y libres en Cuba y sus instituciones en el Caribe hispano. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y El Caribe, 2007. Reviewed by María del Carmen Barcia.

Mercedes Cros Sandoval, Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería: Africa to Cuba and Beyond. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Reviewed by Willie Ramos.

Lohania J. Aruca Alonso and José María Camero Álvarez, Expediciones, exploracionesy viajeros en el Caribe. La Habana: Ediciones Unión, 2006. Reviewed by Yoel Cordoví Núñez.

Mayra Beatriz Martínez, Martí, eros y mujer (revisitando el canon). La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2005. Reviewed by Pedro Pablo Rodríguez.

Marial Iglesias Utset, Las metáforas del cambio en la vida cotidiana: Cuba 1898–1902. La Habana: Editorial Unión, 2003. Reviewed by Duanel Díaz.

José Vega Suñol, Norteamericanos en Cuba: Estudio etnohistórico. La Habana: Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 2004. Reviewed by Jesús Guanche.

Ricardo L. Ortiz, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007; Damián J. Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. Reviewed by David William Foster.

Flora González Mandri, Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006; Mary G. Berg, Pamela Carmell, and Anne Fountain, eds., Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island. Nott

Guillermo Jiménez, Las empresas de Cuba 1958. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2004. Reviewed by Jorge Ibarra Cuesta.

Don Bohning, The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959–1965. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006. Reviewed by Kyle Longley.

Mervyn J. Bain, Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1985 to 1991: Changing Perceptions in Moscow and Havana. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007; Patrick J. Haney and Walt Wanderbush, The Cuban Embargo: The Domestic Politics of an American Embargo. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Un

Armando Nova González, La agricultura en Cuba: Evolución y trayectoria (1959–2005). La Habana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 2006. Reviewed by Carmelo Mesa-Lago.

Recent Work in Cuban Studies / Teresa Chapa, bibliography editor

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